Their closets must be filled with designer creations for the red carpet, so why did they both opt for this one?

Her makeup was immaculate, her gown was the latest off-the-shoulder designer creation, and she wore lots of costly, gaudy jewelry at her ears, throat, and wrists.

She wore Raven's designer creation as though born with it, like a second skin.

But some designer creations aren't worth it at any price.

She stepped out of the borrowed designer creation and draped it carefully over the chair next to the bed.

Dressed up but lacking elegance, the women refer to their designer creations in terms of the fashionable-disease charity ball for which they were bought.

Those designer creations have ushered forth such commercial treatments, now ubiquitous in stores, as simple silvered slip dresses and Lurex knitwear with the new metallic sparkle.

Flight attendants' uniforms, now vaguely evocative of milkmen, will be replaced with snazzy designer creations.

THERE was, of course, the telltale navy dress, apparently a simple little number, not a fancy designer creation but an off-the-rack staple from a store as unremarkable as the Gap.

But they are not waiting for first dibs on designer creations; they are there for the clothing at the Seattle Goodwill Thrift Shop's one-day Glitter Sale.